Games › Real Time Tactics › Real Time Tactics + Mining
Should I ship a Mining Real Time Tactics?
Real Time Tactics + Mining
Only 11 developers shipped a Mining Real Time Tactics in the last 2 years, too few for firm odds: the middle one made est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.; the top game by est. revenue, ITER-8, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 18 more are announced, ×2.6 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $6.0k, ×9.5 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $390; 1 in 20 cleared $62k, ×100 the market median. Revenue is up 150% on the market; 18 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $390 (exactly $390) |
|---|---|
| Median | $6.0k (exactly $5,992) |
| Top 25% | $9.0k (exactly $8,991) |
| Top 5% | $63k (exactly $62,742) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 11 |
| Released games | 30 |
| Announced | 18 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $7.99 |
momentum: how a niche's revenue percentiles and developer count moved between two equal, adjacent periods, divided by the market's own move. See method., 12 months: revenue up 150% on the market, supply 75% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 20%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Real Time Tactics
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Mining
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Real Time Tactics, Mining
- Price point
- $7.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 73% positive over 353 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $390. All of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 18 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.6 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Real Time Tactics with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + DragonsStrong odds
- + Outbreak SimFair
- + HackingFair
- + World War IIPoor odds
- + Cold WarPoor odds
- + HistoricalPoor odds
- + Real-Time with PausePoor odds
- + Real-TimePoor odds
- + MechsPoor odds
- + Vehicular CombatPoor odds
- + God GamePoor odds
- + Open WorldPoor odds
Comparable games
Turmoil 2016 · $5.1M 
Thriving City: Song 2024 · $1.7M 
Beneath the Mountain 2024 · $147k 
ITER-8 2026 · $63k 
BoomTown! Deluxe 2016 · $35k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Turmoil | older | $12.99 | 13,154 92% | 395k | $5.1M (exactly $5,126,114) | Gamious |
| | Thriving City: Song | older | $18.99 | 3,054 81% | 92k | $1.7M (exactly $1,739,864) | White Star Studio |
| | Beneath the Mountain | older | $24.99 | 196 63% | 5.9k | $147k (exactly $146,941) | Omnis Rector Studios |
| | ITER-8 | $12.99 | 161 70% | 4.8k | $63k (exactly $62,742) | fluckyMachine | |
| | BoomTown! Deluxe | older | $5.99 | 196 84% | 5.9k | $35k (exactly $35,221) | Ish Games |
 | Flow Of War | $12.99 | 40 85% | 1.2k | $16k (exactly $15,588) | Rongcon Games | |
 | The HELL | · EA | $9.99 | 30 73% | 900 | $9.0k (exactly $8,991) | METROPOLICE |
 | Fantasy World / 幻想世界 | $19.99 | 14 71% | 420 | $8.4k (exactly $8,396) | Fantasy Studio | |
 | Orcdom | $4.99 | 42 78% | 1.3k | $6.3k (exactly $6,287) | GAGA | |
 | Nuice Industries | · EA | $7.99 | 25 96% | 750 | $6.0k (exactly $5,992) | CastleWind |
 | Loot of Idle | $1.99 | 33 48% | 990 | $2.0k (exactly $1,970) | DarkRook Interactive | |
 | Dead Above | $12.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $390 (exactly $390) | ZHOU,SU | |
 | Collect All These Stones! (CATS) | $1.99 | 6 66% | 180 | $358 (exactly $358) | Well Dumb Games | |
 | Minesweeper Madness | $2.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $90 (exactly $90) | Bear Falls Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
Five niches a week, one death, one deep dive.
Your address goes to Buttondown, which sends the letter, and nowhere else. Every issue has an unsubscribe link. No tracking beyond the open count Buttondown keeps.